Quite true. But we do have some cowboys who can really push the edge.
Pushing A Tractor To It's Limits
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EONE
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Bill Guenthner
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This is why I will never buy a used tractor. Too many people try to use them as dozers or excavators. Maybe it's got "low hours" but if most of those hours were pulling tree stumps and exceeding the weight limits...
EONE
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I agree 100%....Some places and people have learned to use what they have....In this country "USA" equipment was pushed to it's limits in a great majority of cases...in farming, logging, construction, mining, etc,etc,etc.... in particular "in the old days"..If you truly have spent a long time around and operating equipment you will know this as fact...How do think the equipment got better, and more productive??....because the stuff was always being pushed. The man in the video is doing a job with a tractor..and very likey because that's what he or his employer has available or can afford to use. When you see all those supposed crazy videos of people loading equipment onto a tiny flat bed truck, or something that "we" would not do..does not mean they are stupid,... just resourceful....we like to laugh and criticize... but they get the most out of what they have...and many times people in those areas are better, more skilled and capable with less than "we" are in the USA. I learned a long time ago not to laugh. It can come right back on you. Pushing the limits....well here is just an example of very modern and massive wheel loaders doing very tough and dangerous work....But They sure are good at it by the way these are 100+ ton loaders working....
greggyy
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it is achieving little...
k0ua
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Many times, and they do stuff that will curl your hair. Of course their tractors are usually "squat" tractors. A lowered center of gravity. But still It is phenomenal what they do.
DieselBound
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Haven't watched the video but...
Unless one has been outside the confines of the comfy western world it's hard to grasp what life is like elsewhere. My wife is from the Philippines and I've seen stuff, there, that would gob-smack most: stuff that would cause a coronary in any OSHA official (not to say that having general rules of conduct for work is a bad thing- anything that keeps employer abuse down is good). For sure, there are idiots everywhere, but what might be seen as idiotic might not be the result of an idiot: many have an awareness that is very tuned to the moment such that there can be an appearance of the defiance of physics (often seen in entertainment circles).
Unless one has been outside the confines of the comfy western world it's hard to grasp what life is like elsewhere. My wife is from the Philippines and I've seen stuff, there, that would gob-smack most: stuff that would cause a coronary in any OSHA official (not to say that having general rules of conduct for work is a bad thing- anything that keeps employer abuse down is good). For sure, there are idiots everywhere, but what might be seen as idiotic might not be the result of an idiot: many have an awareness that is very tuned to the moment such that there can be an appearance of the defiance of physics (often seen in entertainment circles).
EONE
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...because they have learned to do it and fear does not factor into it. Just like an "extreme" anything...